It depends what you consider a good living (sm)

Some only need $150 a month for rent so the low pay would be fine.

But if you are pulling your hair out for less than what unemployment pays, I'd take the unemployment.

• Has anyone actually left MT to work at Burger King? - Sheryl
  • Why would you have to work at a job like that? - sm
  • what do you do when..... - Sheryl
    • Sheryl, feeling this way about your job - Busy MT'ing
      • I agree with Sheryl-- MT has been ruined. - nm
        • It depends what you consider a good living (sm) - Same here
  • Love MT - Mom-CMT
    • It's nice that you can supplement the family income, but - I have to survive
  • No way, have you seen the Burger King guy - in those commercials? sm
    • commercials - Romey
    • What about the one that's in your bed serving breakfast? nm - justme2
      • sooooo not right! - lol
    • ROFL! Thanks for the chuckle. - The King
  • My kid works at - Burger King - read on
  • My sister works at McDonalds. sm - jb
  • why not go back to school. you can - muttonhead
    • Great idea - Absolutely! - nm
  • Only if they're paying 20+ per/hr with cheap benefits, 401K, and generous vacation time. - NM
  • I think you guys are just with the wrong company. SM - Becky
    • wrong company..... - typinfool
    • Being a good MT isn't always enough. - future BK employee
      • no future in MT - Ann TX
        • I have had the same thing happen (sm) - Same here
        • I'm sorry. :( Keep trying. Now I will say this: SM - Becky
  • RU kidding???? - RadGuy
    • OF COURSE, we're kidding! nm - Can relate
      • I wasn't kidding. - future BK employee
        • You don't wanna go there. Why would you take minimum wage to - Dancin Shoes
          • You haaven't knocked off the husband for the life insurance yet?? You have options, she may not! - Well....
          • what is it with everyone on this board being - muttonhead
            • Because they're angry and frustrated too - sm
          • I have looked. - BK employee
            • Always be looking. Every day. Network with others. SM - Becky
  • not quitting yet - Mom-CMT
    • I agree - me
  • me too! as if the holidays aren't - dcc
    • With all due respect - I go to several web boards, SMT, and SM - Becky
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That depends on what you want out of it. If you are looking for a way to stay home with children and still earn money, then yes, it is good. If you are looking for a new career and don't have to work at home, I would look into something else, like maybe medical coding.  For me, MTing has been a great way to stay home with my children because my husband's job requires him to travel a lot, so it is just easier for me.  I love that about it.  But if I was just looking for a new career and didn't have staying home as a concern, I would do something else.  From what I have seen in the 12 years I have been doing this, you are never going to get rich, and you will get bored.  You will enjoy your flexibility and sometimes love, sometimes hate that you get to work alone all the time.

As far as the question about schools...I say "community college."  That is your best bet for a good education and help with job placement.

The only life they know is confinement and pain.  From the little I let myself watch, they have absolutely no room to move, they are crammed and shoved in together.  They don't get to roam and do whats natural to them outdoors.  They are being born and raised primarily to be brutalized for crop.  Like a canned food factory.  They get their body parts cut off, injuries from other animals, and have to live in physical pain until they are ready to be put out of their misery for whatever purpose they serve.

In all honesty, I absolutely love meat and enjoy it on rare occasions, and it is meant for us to consume.  There is another way to do it!  They cannot be treated as if they do not have feelings, they 'feel' pain, the mother's are distressed when their calves are taken away, the calves are scared, you see it in their eyes, as another living thing, you have got to connect with this.  Its an awful way for any living thing to go through, even in a short time. 

I can see being raised on a farm, room to roam, be outside, run, eat normally, socialize with their breed, have a life.  They do not know the better that they are being raised for our consumption, there are living in peace without pain and living freely.  Being crammed, thrown around, beaks cut off, having throats slit, hung upside down while still alive thriving in pain is not a peaceful life. 

Talk about production!!!

However, that only works if the person who has dictated the voice file is also the one who trained Dragon on the system. IOW, Dr Smith has DNS 8 Med Suite in his office, and he's trained it enough to provide a good level of accuracy. He can dictate into the mobile unit, say, after seeing a patient, but things still have to be in the same manner that he dictates into DNS on his home system. He can give the voice file to his office manager to upload and do the editing.

But you can't do that with Dr Smith's dictation, unless Dr Smith has sat at your computer and trained it. As soon as you input the voice file, your system will give you a great big "do what?"

I hope this explains things better.

YOU don't work for SOMEONE/COMPANY.  You work for yourself (even if you're an employee).  I say that because you are working to provide your own needs, not those of whomever benefits from your work.  You arre responsible for providing for yourself and it is your personal responsibility to make sure your own needs are met.  If the beneficiary of your need to work (i.e., pay bills, earn money, whatever) is not providing what you need, you owe it to yourself to take care of yourself and find enough work to achieve that goal.

Now, I'm not saying don't have a team attitude or be selfish, demanding, negative, self centered, but when you think about it, NO one is going to take better care of you than YOU!  If you are sitting around waiting for someone else to take care of you, then you are not taking care of yourself.  Get proactive!  Find a supplement source of income.  The first company doesn't need to know what you are doing...besides, if you are an IC, by IRS guidelines, YOU are in control, not them.  They only need you IF they need you and have no obligation to be reliable in meeting your financial needs.

Really meaning to help.

off my

They are all staying in Aruba.  How can they take off of work indefinitely even if they aren't wealthy and took a second mortgage on their house. 

PS:  I doubt very much a resort town is giving away free services to these people and their entourage.  This is how a resort makes money you know.  Especially when you are there criticizing their government and call citizens criminal who have been released from jail for lack of evidence.

How much do you think you would need to make a good living.  Meaning enough to cover all bills, enough to put some away for a rainy day, and enough to play, like dinners, hobbies, maybe a weekend getaway twice a year.  Be realistic.  I'm thinking for me, since i'm single, 50k a year. 

Second question.  If you hadnt gotten trapped in MT, what profession do you see yourself in maybe even earning way more than you can imagine, doing what you love?  For me, it would be psychotherapist. 

anyone???  ANYONE ???

I would really like to know this as mine seem high.  My cost for the bare minimum, not including insurance, medical costs or entertainment, is about $1,800.00 per month.

Is that high to most people?  TIA.

Kinda nice to get lost and just veg with my Law & Order and CSI addictions :)

Obviously, I'm in the minority since they seem to come up with more and more reality shows .... I admit to watching the Biggest Loser a couple of times, but I can't imagine being "hooked" and watching it all of the time, sitting on the edge of my seat. 

I lived there as a transplant for about 10 years -- My answers might be more helpful if you had specific questions and/or what part of the state you are talking about -- e/m me.

When I first opened up the small MTSO in '97, I still had a child at home.  Once she left, I turned her room into the room for the national I work for and is a formal office but also serves as a guest bedroom.  The private MDs I do in my master bedroom (it's huge!!!!! not bragging but it's really a huge room) and is just the way I had it set up when my daughter was still living at home right thru 2000, her bedroom was the 2nd bedroom and was NOT an office until she left, nor did I work for this national until she left home (she lives around the corner from me, like 2 miles *L*).  It would be a huge undertaking for me to put them both into one room now.  And if I do not stay with the national, down the road, well there will be absolutely no problem there.  Anyone else I take on, I would put in the master bedroom to do their work today.

hope that all made sense......*lol*